Ancient Church Dedications in Scotland. By James Murray Mackinlay, M.A.
(David Douglas, Edinburgh. 12s. 6d. net.)— This volume is given to " Scriptural Dedications." The practice in Scotland is very much the same as that to be observed in England, except that St. Andrew, as the patron saint of the country, occupies a different position in respect of St. Peter. In this country St. Peter stands ahead of all the Apostles, coming next to the Virgin. These last dedications are by far the most numerous in England, and we see that Mr. Mackinlay devotes to them a hundred and nine pages out of a total of three hundred and seventy. It will be interesting to give the figures of the other names The Holy Trinity and the Divine Persons, sixty-nine ; St. Anne and the Family of Bethany, twenty-two ; the Apostles and Evangelists, ninety-three ; the Martyrs (SS. Stephen and Clement, and the Holy Innocents), thirty-eight ; the Archangels, twenty-one ; the Holy Rood, fourteen. This is a very learned and careful book.
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